Tactical.

Otago Witness, Issue 2410, 10 May 1900, Page 66

Tactical.

A. yoiui" man got into a trameai", and saw, to his delight, that the only vacant, seat vras by tha side of c young lady accjuaintar.ee. Ho mfiJe for that f=eat with ioyou-s. strides, and her eye* answered his delighted looks. But iust £3 he get there an elderly nun on the c ame side moved up into the coveted place.

The young man approached more slowly, and accosted the yourg lidy. "How is yowv brother:" he asked; "is he able to get out?"

"'Oil, ygj," sjie ansvrerrd.

"Will he be very badly marked, do you thiak?" he continued, ard the old .gentleman giv,*,v luddccly interested.

'•Oh. no,'' E.iid the fair deceive? ; "wil-h the cncapiioii of £«, few small m&iki in the middle cf Ida fojehesd, .yon woulur.'t know thab he had e\er had it*"

"Were you not afraid of taking it?"' the yoancc man wsut on. while the old gentlema a broke out in a cold pai-spir.itioi'. "Nok al all." sLp replied; "I had been vaccinated, you know."

i The peat v/a ; vacated inscanily, the two t young; ueii-ts beat iio half a dozen, and the pvattie ot ''nice talk"' sirewed that pare of the cnviiagp, while a grey-haired old man . -scowled upon Them from the faiiher come:* ! of fie tramcrr."

Said Prof-isso- Em D^ion to the fiea : In jou 1 foe a 2.io=t .surrrising, reSeittblsncs to {he paehydermous Uyiio=>aura-!ieth.ys« mns. "Witb a tendency to ape the ch'm-oanzec.

I will <iieo Make an observation fin- ' Al up in your .igils gambols o.i my spine, Staging that I've found insajiixy, insomnia, pre-anity. Augmented by the way la whioh yon dine.